According to Stewart, Israel may not even try to avoid a conflict with Iran.
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– It seems that the Israeli government sees this as an opportunity to clear the table of threats to Israel.
This is what a senior expert at the Institute of Foreign Policy assesses Timo R. Stewart The ongoing conflict in the Middle East on Thursday’s A-Talk.
On Tuesday, Iran made a missile attack on Israel, which Israel is expected to retaliate.
According to Stewart, Iran’s attack invites Israel to take advantage of the opportunity and strike hard at Iran, which it perceives as a threat. According to Stewart, escalation with Iran is not necessarily something that Israel shies away from.
Iran, on the other hand, according to Stewart’s assessment, does not want a big war.
– For the simple reason that they are the underdog.
US aircraft carriers and troops in the Middle East are in support of Israel.
According to Stewart, Israel does not have the same restraint to avoid escalation.
It is difficult to strike against the nuclear program without the help of the USA
Despite the alliance, the United States has relatively few means to prevent Israeli attacks, says the professor of Middle Eastern studies at the University of Helsinki Hannu Juusola.
According to Juusola, one of the reasons for the weakness of the United States is the ongoing presidential elections in the United States.
Iran’s nuclear program is speculated to be one of the possible targets of an Israeli strike. According to Juusola, it would be difficult for Israel to strike against this without the help of the United States.
A strike against the nuclear program would be a technically complex operation that would be difficult to carry out without US support.
The story is updated.